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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music.
Smith became an employee (and, later, mistress) of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in the early to mid-1970s. The Smith-Lightfoot affair was violent and illustrated in the lyrics of "Sundown" (1974), Lightfoot's No. 1 hit and most lucrative song. It reflects the dark feelings Lightfoot was experiencing at the time, with lyrics such ...
Albert Grossman (May 21, 1926 – January 25, 1986) was an American entrepreneur and manager in the American folk music and rock and roll scene. He was famous as the manager of many of the most popular and successful performers of folk and folk-rock music, including Bob Dylan; Janis Joplin; Peter, Paul and Mary; the Band; Odetta; Gordon Lightfoot; and Ian & Sylvia.
Canadian folk-rock icon Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84.Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday night of natural causes, his publicist told the Associated Press. The late artist ...
Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's answer to U.S. singer-songwriters who provided the soundtrack for baby boomers coming of age amid a countercultural revolution, died Monday, his publicist said.
Gordon Lightfoot, the influential Canadian singer/songwriter best known for songs like “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” “Early Morning Rain,” and “The Wreck of the Edmund ...
The Best of Gordon Lightfoot: Release date: 1970; Label: United Artists Records — — — Classic Lightfoot: The Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Vol. 2: Release date: 1971; Label: United Artists Records; 41 178 — A Lightfoot Collection: The Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Vol. 3: Release date: 1972; Label: United Artists Records — — — The Very ...
Sit Down Young Stranger is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's sixth original album and his best-selling original album. [2] Shortly after its 1970 release on the Reprise Records label, it was renamed If You Could Read My Mind when the song of that title reached #1 on the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.